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Does anyone anywhere have any clue what Kim Jung-un is like? They're so tightlipped about affairs there I can't find squat online.

Probably worse even than his father. Even if Kim Jong-Il liked to prance around and pretend to be a god king, he did have at least some sense of how his country was viewed by the outside world, I don't know how well his son would understand that, especially if he was behind the sinking of the south korean ship that happened recently, as some suspect.

It hasn't been created yet, but it has been slated for development. And technically, you have a Dutch architect to thank for that design.

Additional Note: I also seriously doubt the planners were oblivious to it's striking similarities to our historical tragedy. I don't doubt for a moment that it isn't beneath the Korean government to cook up such a design to provoke our sentiments while having the convenience of feigning ignorance and dreaming up some bullsh*t about "a cloud-like vision" blah blah blah.

It hasn't been created yet, but it has been slated for development. And technically, you have a Dutch architect to thank for that design.

Very true, but it is also true that you need someone who gives the money for such projects. In some countries they don't know what to do with their money otherwise (thinking about the sheikh countries), and in some the building gets built at the cost of the powerless people, like in the past ages (pyramids built by slaves for example) or now in some countries where the deciders don't give a shit about people living in poverty or so. In the western countries such projects will rarely be planned by governments on their own right now, because they lack already the money for other important things. At best you will find some private investors doing something.

Very true, but it is also true that you need someone who gives the money for such projects. In some countries they don't know what to do with their money otherwise (thinking about the sheikh countries), and in some the building gets built at the cost of the powerless people, like in the past ages (pyramids built by slaves for example) or now in some countries where the deciders don't give a shit about people living in poverty or so. In the western countries such projects will rarely be planned by governments on their own right now, because they lack already the money for other important things. At best you will find some private investors doing something.

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"The views of absolutists and purists everywhere should be noted in fierce detail, then meticulously and thoroughly printed onto my toilet paper ply."

What I wanted to say is that of course the design is the work of the architect, but such projects get only made when someone wants to give the money to get it done. Personally I have my doubts if you should always thank someone for giving money into such projects when it goes at the cost of more important things.